Sounds of the Neutron, by Orphic Signals

Sounds of the Neutron

by Orphic Signals

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Cyance Music to play while in your space pod. Deep space travel without moving from you seat. Excellent stuff! Favorite track: The Reactor.

Nhung Nguyen Each piece in “Sounds of the Neutron” has an eerie, immersive quality. The opening track “Sample Changeover” introduces a high-pitched sound which promises a fascinating sonic journey ahead. Minimal melodies, arpeggios and chords form an endless flow where every detail of drone and environmental sounds shines. Favorite track: Cooling Tower.

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1.	Sample Changeover 09:12	buy track
2.	The Neutron 07:33	buy track
3.	Cooling Tower 08:17	buy track
4.	Walking to the Biolab 05:25	buy track
5.	The Reactor 06:11	buy track
6.	Target Station 04:49	buy track

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After two albums of electro-acoustic ambience as The Ashes of Piemonte back in 2013 (on Time Released Sound and Twice Removed), Lee Norris and Wil Bolton return under the new guise of Orphic Signals, a more purely electronic, hardware-based project.

'Sounds of the Neutron' blends influences from ambient, drone, detroit techno, Berlin school and the BBC radiophonic workshop. A palette of analogue sequencers, loopers and vintage analogue keyboards plays slowly pulsing arpeggios and melodies, blurred and washed out with multiple reverb and delay pedals into droning, textural space music.

Environmental sounds recorded by Richard Harvey at the Institut Laue-Langevin neutron science research centre in France provide an immersive and eerie backdrop to the music - the sounds of geiger counters and neutron detectors reflected in the walls of concrete blockhouses and control cabins. This is the sound of machines adrift, a hazy psychotropic soundtrack to a sci-fi vision of a lone scientist working on an abandoned space station.

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released August 30, 2017

Released by ...txt Recordings - txtrecordings.co.uk
Written and produced by Lee Norris and Wil Bolton
Environmental sounds recorded by Richard Harvey at the Institut Laue-Langevin neutron science research centre, France - www.ill.eu
Sleeve design by Nick Edell - soundsightsandtype.org
Mastered by blackparticle - blackparticle.com

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Wil Bolton's work uses guitars, acoustic instruments, vintage keyboards and effects to create warm and emotive melodies, fragmented and submerged among beds of droning ambient textures and environmental sounds.

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